Short Monumentally Poems

What kind of pet did Harry bring home?
Not from Alaska, Italy, Corinth or Rome
Massie and mastadonic, my mama said.
But aren’t all wooly mammoths kind of dead?...

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Static on the radio
Within lonesome nights
Inspirations
Monumentally minuscule

Playing over
Unmelodic hums
Of conditioning air platitudes

And a muted TV
In the silent running
A drowning to the local news

And all I hear is tapping
Into interpretations
Spilling out
From inner worlds of muse...

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We unveiled her as the juniper tree
bowed down low to the ground 
From the balcony, kids threw cranberries
which got stuck in her apple sprig crown
A humming bird swept past her shoulder
and graced her with jasper and jade
The elm tree showed her his virtue
as she quivered under his shade
And in the evening we peeled the rind
right off of the luscious moon
to slather her thick and gracious
on the headstone of her tomb....

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